• Maiuma, Maiumas, Maiouma, Maïouma or Maioumas is the name of an ancient festival and related toponyms. Maiuma may refer to: Maiuma (city), ancient port...
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  • Maiuma (also Maiumas or Maiouma, Maioumas) was an ancient town and one of the two ports of Gaza along with Anthedon. Its remains are situated at present-day...
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  • Cosmas of Maiuma, also called Cosmas Hagiopolites ("of the Holy City"), Cosmas of Jerusalem, Cosmas the Melodist, or Cosmas the Poet (d. 773 or 794), was...
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  • Maiuma or Maiouma, also written with a final s, was a Graeco-Syrian nocturnal water festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite and held during the month...
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    held from 27 April–3 May during the Roman Republic era, and the Maiouma or Maiuma, a festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite held every three years during...
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    Port of Gaza (section Maiuma)
    the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). In earlier times, the port of Maiuma, or el Mineh (Arabic for "the harbour"), was located in the area. In the...
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  • en route, Jacob and his group stopped at the Monastery of St. Romanus in Maiuma where they became ill and Jacob died on 30 July 578. According to Cyriacus...
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    Umayyad period include the theologian John of Damascus, bishop Cosmas of Maiuma, Pope Benjamin I of Alexandria and Isaac of Nineveh. Although non-Muslims...
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  • 1965. It was located in the ancient port city of Gaza, then known as " Maiumas", currently the Rimal district of Gaza City. In 1965, Egyptian archaeologists...
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    Gaza, Mamluk period with both older and more recent elements Maiuma: Remains of Maiuma in Port of Gaza, Rimal district. See Gaza synagogue. Monastery...
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  • founding the first Georgian monastery in Bethlehem and becoming the bishop of Maiuma near Gaza. The oldest Georgian Bir el Qutt inscriptions mention Peter with...
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  • John Rufus, John of Beth Rufina (also spelled Ruphina), or John of Maiuma (born c. AD 450), was an anti-Chalcedonian priest of Antioch, a disciple of Peter...
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    inhabitants of Maiuma reportedly converted to Christianity en masse. Constantine II decided to separate it from pagan Gaza in 331, giving Maiuma city rights...
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    Christianity began to spread throughout Gaza in 250 CE, including in the port of Maiuma. First evidence of a Bishop of Gaza is from early 4th century, when St....
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    dies natalis ("birthday") of Mars in whose conception Flora played a role. Maiuma (festival), Roman-era religious water festival held in May May Queen Roman...
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    has only three odes in it (a triode), and was composed by St. Cosmas of Maiuma. The four Gospels are divided and read in their entirety at the Little Hours...
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    Translated critical edition of vitae written by John Rufus, Bishop of Maiuma. Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section Grillmeier...
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  • employed him as the tutor of John and his orphan foster brother Cosmas of Maiuma who became the Poet of the Holy City. Apparently, John's father met Cosmas...
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  • garb[citation needed] Cosma Spessotto Franciscan habit[citation needed] Cosmas of Maiuma Vested as a bishop, or as a monk, holding a scroll with the words of one...
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  • Constantine the Great 337 21 May Equal-to-the-Apostles, Roman Emperor Cosmas of Maiuma 701–800 14 October Hymnographer Cuthbert of Lindisfarne 687 20 March Monk...
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    kañon reached its peak with the music of John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma and later Theodore of Stoudios and Theophanes the Branded in the 8th and...
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  • and Ascalon, the city served as one of the two ports of Gaza, along with Maiuma. As the Persian empire replaced its Assyrian predecessor in 539 BCE and...
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    the Monastery of Saint Romanus in Maiuma, where he was ordained a priest by Epiphanius, Bishop of Magydus. At Maiuma, Severus received his inheritance...
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    painted Attic drinking cup Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic religion Maiuma (festival) dedicated to Dionysus and Aphrodite Theatre of Dionysus in Athens...
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    writings of Aristobulus of Paneas. Julius Firmicus Maternus, Cosmas of Maiuma, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Athanasius Kircher. Images of the decans are...
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    name. Parts of the Axion Estin hymn date back to 8th-century (Cosmas of Maiuma). In the Eastern Church, the Theotokia often include biblical references...
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  • 730 Yes 1 Pope Cosmas II 858 Yes 1 Pope Cosmas III 933 Yes 1 Cosmas of Maiuma 8th century Yes Yes 2 Cristóbal Magallanes Jara 30 Jul 1869 25 May 1927...
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    and Euclid in geometry. He also taught John's orphan friend, Cosmas of Maiuma. John possibly had a career as a civil servant for the Caliph in Damascus...
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    Anastasius abbot of those who returned under him John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma joined the community witnessed the martyrdom of the twenty monks in 797...
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    seated on a throne and flanked by the Theotokos and by Saint Cosmas of Maiuma. A second type, known as "Wisdom hath builded her Home" (Премудрость созда...
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